What are "Continental Glaciers"?

Glaciers are the big body of dense ice and constantly moves under its own weight, and the glaciers that are larger than 50,000 square Kilometers are called as continental glaciers. It is one of the types of glaciers and it can further be divided into two categories, i.e. ice field and ice sheet.
To read more about continental glaciers, follow this link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glacier